Developmental BiologybioRxivPreprint
On growth and form of the distal air exchange surfaces within the lung.
David Warburton, Clarence M. Wigfall, Harvey A. Pollack…·Rex A. Moats
The paper uses novel imaging and computational approaches to deduce how distal air exchange surfaces in the lung form through epithelial buckling and extrusion, stabilized by elastin and collagen rings.